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Israelis worry about weakening connection with young US Jews amid rising antisemitism
AP via Times of Israel ^ | 08 23 2026 | Staff

Posted on 08/23/2026 6:48:24 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Israelis across political and religious lines are worried about the weakening connection with younger Jewish Americans — who, according to a recent AP-NORC poll, tend to consider support for Israel less crucial to their Jewish identity than older adults.

“It’s extremely important to us,” said Itai Nixon, who leads the diaspora department for Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry. “We’re the state of the Jewish people, not just Israelis.”

Lesley Sachs, who has protested the current Israeli government and chairs the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, also considers a close relationship with diaspora Jews a “strategic asset” for both Israel and Jews worldwide.

So she’s greatly concerned about diaspora Jews losing the sense that Israel can be a homeland for them, especially as rising antisemitism targets them regardless of political and religious affiliations.

“That was always really, really important that everybody around the world, especially after the Holocaust, knows that there is a country that will always take them,” Sachs said in her synagogue in Tel Aviv. “This is already a few generations after, and this is less prominent in their DNA. And I think that this is really a failure on the part of both Israel and world Jewry, that we have not managed to keep that prominent.”

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KEYWORDS: israel; isralis; jews; us

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1 posted on 08/23/2026 6:48:24 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Antisemitism and hatred of Israel are from satan, no doubt about it whatsoever.


2 posted on 08/23/2026 8:08:09 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: yesthatjallen

Anti-zionism is not anti-Semitism.


3 posted on 08/23/2026 10:13:31 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon. )
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To: yesthatjallen
"Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God."

The Son of man is the only man that Israel and the World needs.

4 posted on 08/23/2026 10:40:59 PM PDT by Theophilus (I'm all out of attention to this matter...)
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To: sockmonkey
Anti-zionism is not anti-Semitism

There are about 195 countries in the world today, and yet "anti-zionists" say the only one that should not exist is Israel, which happens to be the only Jewish one out of the 195.

So, at first glance, it seems anti-Semitic to me.

Maybe you can elaborate what you believe "anti-Zionism" is and why it's important to you.

5 posted on 08/24/2026 4:16:51 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: sockmonkey

They go hand in hand. “Anti-Zionism” is just a facade


6 posted on 08/24/2026 4:18:42 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: yesthatjallen

Leftism is a suicide cult and Jewish leftism doubly so.


7 posted on 08/24/2026 6:12:43 AM PDT by Salman (We need to proceed as if the system were completely broken. Because it is. )
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To: No name given
Antisemitism and hatred of Israel are from satan, no doubt about it whatsoever.

The modern Israeli government is the synagogue of satan.

It's why they celebrate spitting on christians as 'tradition':


8 posted on 08/24/2026 7:06:27 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: fruser1
There are about 195 countries in the world today, and yet "anti-zionists" say the only one that should not exist is Israel, which happens to be the only Jewish one out of the 195.

So, at first glance, it seems anti-Semitic to me.

At first glance, which countries do you see disappeared on the map of this patch:


9 posted on 08/24/2026 7:11:48 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3

nope, you are VERY wrong. That group consists of Soros and Schumer types.


10 posted on 08/24/2026 7:38:33 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA!)
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To: Gunslingr3

Israel bends over backwards not to. you Antisemites destiny, unless you repent is The Lake Of Fire. The one you will stand and bow before is a Jewish man from Israel who wears the robes of the Jewish High Priest.


11 posted on 08/24/2026 7:41:14 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA!)
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To: sockmonkey

“”Anti-zionism is not anti-Semitism.””

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Same stupidity, same bigotry, same evil, same source of that evil.


12 posted on 08/24/2026 7:49:51 AM PDT by Danie_2023 (I'm America First, but I stand by Israel and against 'anyone' that acts against America or Israel.)
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To: yesthatjallen

No different than general white population here
Younger whites are not as tethered to the holocaust exposure as boomers are or were
They (conservative white kids)see leftist Jews everywhere in the enemy camp often at or near the top and go what the hell

It’s endemic

They lack the restraint boomers like me had in this pickle and feel why be compelled the same to support Israel no matter what

I’ve got millennial and zoomer kids three boys and two girls 19-38

It’s the same with all of them

Dad you’re a trad con boomer

Actually I’m a paleo southerner lol


13 posted on 08/24/2026 7:57:29 AM PDT by wardaddy (If u hate Trump you're stupid Tor clueless and what's going on We're fighting for our civilization s)
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To: yesthatjallen

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14 posted on 08/24/2026 7:57:35 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: cowboyusa
You responded to my post, but not my question.

What countries do you see erased on that zionist patch?

15 posted on 08/24/2026 7:58:53 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: yesthatjallen

https://youtu.be/QwN0K2ZSAoQ?si=FcDh-NHYDzFlrNLm

Very good analysis on history of Zionism and Palestine etc from a quite comprehensive and fair brit Jewish historian


16 posted on 08/24/2026 7:59:57 AM PDT by wardaddy (If u hate Trump you're stupid Tor clueless and what's going on We're fighting for our civilization s)
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To: yesthatjallen

Propaganda works.


17 posted on 08/24/2026 8:01:42 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Gunslingr3

That’s the Land grant GOD gave to the Jewish People in Geneses. Won’t take effect until the Millennium.


18 posted on 08/24/2026 8:04:52 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA!)
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To: Gunslingr3

Cute.

Doesn’t answer my question though.


19 posted on 08/24/2026 8:05:53 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: fruser1
Doesn’t answer my question though.

You didn't post a question though.

20 posted on 08/24/2026 9:29:09 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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